Soon, MPs will be introduced to the code of ethics, so that the latter behave themselves a little more discreet at the hall and in hallways, including with journalists. It seems to me that it is a senseless endeavor. Because any code of ethics and morality implies that the entities related to it acknowledge the meaning and importance of the norms listed in the document, and are willing to voluntarily follow these norms. Look at the faces of the majority of our MPs and decide whether they meet the above requirements.
Why the MPs should refer to each other with “Dear Sir” or “Dear Madam”, as it is suggested by the present Code. Because if MPs are elected, they represent different interests, different political views of constituents, who have “heralded” to voice their concerns in the legislative body. Thus, by saying “dear”, you also respect the citizens sent to the Parliament as deputies. If the deputies are elected. But if they have bought their seats by paying for it or squeezed into “transient” lists through adulation and other sins, they will never understand why they should call each other “dear”. The matter, therefore, is not ethics, but the fact that these MPs are not in their places.
What does it mean, for example, to make a war hero with no education a general (this title is given not for courage, but the knowledge and skills), a businessman, and MP. He must have stayed at home, get very high pension, he was to be taken to the military unit, schools, where he would explain how to love their native land and to protect it. But, since mid of 90s, he, and others like him, were made a blunt instrument to coerce over people and as a “thank you” they gave what it did not deserve. The man was thrown into the trap of money and “obscenity”, and now they require some code of conduct, some ethics from them. He is as far from it as from the parliamentary mandate.
But, the general is not the worst option. There are a few dozen MPs with much less merits and services that do not only know what you mean by “ethics”, but do not know what a place is the parliament. But, if they are given the command to attack anyone from “above”, let’s assume, Ms. Postanjyan, they will certainly become active. “Yes, she is a Turk, she must be slaughtered.”
Thus, we need, first, to have MPs, and only then, parliamentary ethics.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
